1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
563 
Feeding Cotton Seed to Stock. 
(CONTINUED.) 
ness, and in remote instances, death in 
cattle. This may be due to one of sev¬ 
eral causes. It may be caused by 
“ptomaines” being 1 formed in the body 
after the food is consumed. Second, to 
organic derangement of the system, in¬ 
duced by too heavy feeding. Third, by 
indigestion (though post mortem exami¬ 
nations fail to reveal anything of the 
kind in hogs), affecting the nerve cen¬ 
ters, inducing fever, blindness, red urine, 
etc. The continued feeding of so rich a 
food containing an excess of fat and car¬ 
bohydrates, as hulls and meal do, has a 
tendency to induce constipation, malnu¬ 
trition and abortion in cows and heifers. 
When the vulva begins to swell, it is 
well to change the feed for a time. 
When it is remembered that this meal 
is fed in many instances, all out of pro¬ 
portion to the needs of the system, and 
without any cooling and soothing laxa¬ 
tive food such as ensilage or roots, to 
counteract and keep the digestive organs 
free from obstructions, it is not surpris¬ 
ing that evil results should follow. 
Nearly all the cattle in this State are 
fed in open paddocks, the meal and hulls 
being placed in feeding troughs at the 
rate of from 10 to 14 pounds apiece per 
day, so that a few sick animals from this 
treatment may naturally be expected ; 
but it is a question whether more than 
average deaths occur for the numbers 
handled. Cattle, when first brought in 
from the sparse pastures of the plains, 
will almost starve before they will touch 
this food ; but when they once become 
accustomed to it, eat it with avidity, and 
it is to be expected that some evil re¬ 
sults will follow from their consuming 
an oversupply of so concentrated a food. 
In an animal of strong constitution, this 
may not be apparent for a long time ; 
but eventually it will affect the system, 
causing it to break down. 
The most satisfactory rations found 
here are as follows : In feeding steers 
for opening periods, four and six pounds 
of meal with hulls ad libitum, gradually 
increasing it to six and ten pounds of 
meal for the finishing period. For dairy 
cows, six pounds of meal, 10 pounds of 
hulls, 20 pounds of ensilage, for winter 
rations. Another rule is, one quarter to 
one-half pound of meal to 100 pounds of 
live weight, or one pound of meal to four 
to five pounds of hulls for fattening 
steers. In experiments here, the rations 
making a pound of gain at the least cost, 
were, first, boiled cotton seed and ensi¬ 
lage ; second, meal and hulls ; third, 
meal, hulls and ensilage. 
The trouble from cotton-seed meal 
feeding seldom appears before 90 days, 
and then it is very often due to the in¬ 
judicious feeding practiced. An experi¬ 
ment conducted here for 150 days during 
the past winter, with eight steers, where 
the meal ration consumed never ex¬ 
ceeded from eight to ten pounds, with 
hulls, ad libitum, was not attended with 
any ill effects. Since then, cows have 
been fed as high as 10 pounds of meal 
for considerable periods without injur¬ 
ing them ; where a rational system of 
feeding is pursued, there is practically 
little danger. 
The people of the North are prejudiced 
against this food, and accordingly have 
never fed it in sufficient quantity to 
achieve the highest success with it, 
though for several reasons, it may be 
fed with less danger than here. Protein 
is so much cheaper here than there, that 
the farmers can afford to feed what may 
be termed, extravagant rations, even 
with less satisfactory results than if 
more bulky fodders were used in con¬ 
junction, because they can get this food 
so much cheaper than they can grow 
fodders, to feed with the meal. In the 
North, the system is just the reverse. 
The many fodders of a non-nitrogenous 
character are the cheapest so that 
cotton-seed meal, being so concentrated, 
will take the place of that part of the 
ration to good advantage, as hulls would 
never pay to transport to feed with the 
meal, though experience here has proved 
them to combine better with the meal 
than any other food stuff for fattening 
purposes. 
Another reason why meal can be fed 
at the North with great immunity, is be¬ 
cause of the long, cold, feeding period, 
for it should not be forgotten that any 
trouble from feeding it here, does not 
generally appear until warm weather, 
and seems to be aggravated by it. The 
system of farming, so long pursued in 
the South, has educated her farmers 
along one line (cotton growing); con¬ 
sequently they do not as yet handle food 
with the skill and judicious management 
of the Northern feeder. 
Cotton seed and its products have of 
late assumed considerable importance 
for feeding sheep. Sheep will do better, 
even on a more concentrated ration, 
than cattle ; but cotton seed should never 
be fed singly to them, nor to any kind of 
stock, as it is not filling enough, and 
also is too laxative to give good results. 
A ration of from four to six pounds of 
meal to 15 to 20 pounds of hulls, with 
hay ad libitum, will be found a safe and 
useful ration. 
Some feeders contend that boiled seed, 
meal and hulls may be safely fed to 
calves. This ration seems too strong for 
young animals ; but as the calves have 
them constantly before them, are on good 
pasture, and receive skim-milk freely, 
these seem to act as diluents. I have 
seen calves fed with the adjuncts above— 
a little meal with about two pounds of 
boiled seed per day—that have made 
good gains, and appeared to be in per¬ 
fect health. Of course raw seed will not 
do for this purpose. About the only 
effect of boiling cotton seed, is to make 
it less laxative and more palatable. 
Roasting has the same effect, but various 
analyses indicate that some slight 
changes in composition are induced, and 
that it is rendered more indigestible. 
DIARY OF A POUND OF BUTTER . 
VVe find the following “diary” in Farm 
and Home, an English publication. In 
some country districts, it appears that 
butter is collected by “ egglers” who 
pick up or sell almost anything that 
comes handy. Some of the “ store but¬ 
ter” sold in this country might tell a 
somewhat similar tale : 
When I was turned out one hot morning in June, 
and placed with the rest of my family on a cool 
slate, and shaded with freshly-gathered “docken” 
leaves, I was as neat and clean and toothsome as 
any butter could be, having, indeed—if my admir¬ 
ers may be believed—at that stage of my exist¬ 
ence a peculiar “nutty” flavor much desired, but 
seldom attained by the more finished of my kind. 
This state of innocence did not, however, last 
many hours, for just about noon—and a blazing 
noon it was—we were taken from our cool re¬ 
treat and carried to the “ eggler’s” cart. Lan¬ 
guage cannot describe my feelings when I saw 
this vehicle. It was divided into two compart¬ 
ments, for the owner carried on more than one 
trade in his daily rounds. 
He was, among other things, a skin collector, 
and the bigger part of the cart was filled with skins 
in various stages of freshness, and with vari¬ 
ous strengths of stink, while blue-bottles buzzed 
cheerily all around, and investigated the hidden 
recesses. He had just come from interviewing 
the shepherd, and getting the weekly tale of 
fallen skins, and his hands were as may be imag¬ 
ined, but not described. Just as they were, how¬ 
ever, he used them to transfer me from the slate 
to the big locker which formed the fore part of the 
cart, where I found a good many more of my 
kind already placed and sweltering in the heat. 
We were not alone, however, but in the same com¬ 
partment there were cheese, baccy and snuff, 
mint lozenges, tea, coffee, pepper, onions,matches, 
to say nothing of such harmless things as sugar, 
salt, blacking, pipes and eggs more or less fresh 
and clean. 
If the proverb “evil communications corrupt 
good manners,” has any application to butter, I 
was certainly in a xiosition where I could hardly 
fail to have not only my manners, but my very 
nature corrupted, and I am sorry to say, my 
deterioration proceeded rapidly enough. 
After jiggling along a roughish road for a 
mile or two, then there was another halt, another 
addition to the skins, the stinks and the blue¬ 
bottles, another opening of the locker, another 
transfer of butter, cheese, baccy, etc., and this 
went on during all the sweltering heat of the 
summer afternoon, till in the evening we reached 
a much needed resting-place, and with my other 
companions, I was placed on a shelf in a'Jfairly 
large and airy pantry, The skins were put some 
other way, and I saw no more of them, but the 
cheese, baccy, etc., were our constant com pan¬ 
ions for some days. 
For two or three days, we remained here, our 
number being- constantly added to, till at last we 
were packed and sent olf to a distant market, 
and after other adventures I was brought to the 
house where I now lie on the tea table. 
What will be my ultimate fate I cannot tell, but 
not five minutes since the cat jumped onto the 
table, and, after a brief survey, came and smelt 
at me. She sneezed, shook her head, and jumped 
off again, her actions indicating only too plainly 
her opinion, and I fear it is the true one. I have 
given you a plain, unvarnished tale of a wasted 
life, and I think you will agree that neither my 
parents nor I are altogether to blame, although it 
seems the fashion to blame us exclusively. 
You Cannot tie Sure, that you will run the Sum¬ 
mer through—free from all attacks of Cramps, Chol¬ 
era Morbus, Diarrhea, or Dysentery, etc. Prudently 
provide yourself, therefore, with Dr. Jayne’s Carmi¬ 
native Balsam, a perfectly safe medicine, and a sure 
curative.— Adv. 
Feeders of Stock 
Kindly Stop a Minute. 
We wish to remind you of the 
Importance of using liberally 
OUR LINSEED OIL MEAL. 
The grass season is now at hand, and the experience 
of watchful stock feeders proves that the use of our 
meal Is beneficial each and every month of the year. 
Writers In the trade journals often say this. Address 
DETROIT LINSEED OIL WORKS, 
DETROIT, MICH. 
USE Plinjl AMRSON 
TAYLOR’S F U iVI A Bisulphide. 
For klllingWoodcliucks, Prairie I>ogs,Gophers 
and Hats, Insects in Grain, Seeds, etc. Shipped 
in 50-pound cans by the manufacturer. 
EDWARD It. TAYLOR, Cleveland, Ohio. 
Every Horseman Should Try 
“Tuttle’s Elixir,” 
The greatest horse 
remedy in the 
world. Not simply 
guaranteed to cure 
in the advertise¬ 
ment, but backed 
by a standing offer 
of !$ 100 Reward 
for every failure. 
If It won’t cure 
your horse of 
Colic, Curbs. 
Spl 1 n t.8, Contracted 
and KnottedCords, 
Shoe Bolls, when 
first started, and 
Callous of all 
kinds, you will re¬ 
ceive the above re¬ 
ward. Used and 
indorsed by Adams 
Express Company. 
Sample free for 
three two-cent 
stamps to pay 
postage. 
I)k. S. A. Tittti.e —Dear Sir: This is to certify that 
I have used “Tuttle's Kllxir,” and cured a spavin on 
a mare that had been lame more than a year, and for 
colic I think it Is the best I ever saw. 
■J. H. Shaw, No. Weymouth aud Boston Express. 
Address Dr. S. A. TUTTLE, 27 Beverley St, 
BOSTON, MASS. 
A HORSE FOR 25 CENTS. 
Same tiling—When your best horse is laid 
up by a gal led shoulder and you can put him 
to work and cure him atsaine time by using 
Bickmore’s Call Cure- Also for Cuts, Scratches, 
Sore feats on Cows. Sample mailed for lOcts. 
Bickmoke Gall Cure Co., Box 1.05. Old Town, Maine. 
Hors© Owners! s Try 
GOMBAULT’S 
Caustic 
_ A Safe .Speedy and Tositive Cure 
The Safest, Best BUSTER overused. Takes 
the place of all liniments for mild or severe action 
Itemoves all Bunches or Blemishes from Horses 
and Cattle. SUPERSEDES ALL CAUTERY 
OR FIRING- Impossible to produce scar or blemish. 
Every bottle sold is warranted to give satisfaction 
Price $1.50 per bottle. Sold by druggists, or 
sent by express, charges paid, with full directions 
for its use. Send for descriptive circulars. 
THE LAWBKNCE-WILLIAMS CO., Cleveland O. 
VICTOR COW CLIP 
Holds cow’s tail to her 
leg and keeps it out of 
the milk and milker’s 
face All dealers sell it. 
' 30c. Single; Pour$l. 
C) 
Sent by mail tree 
SfiP*' 
on receipt of price by 
1 manufacturers, 
| Victor Novelty Works, 
832 Austin Av. Chicago 
1 / ' 
BARREN COWS CURED 
The following la from HON. WAYNE MacVEAGH, 
Ambassador to Italy: 
Brookfield Farm, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
“You can quote from this note my assurance that 
your medicines always gave me the greatest satis- 
MOORE BROS., Albany, N.Y. 
HIGH-CLASS 
Registered Jersey CatUe. 
CLOVEIt HAY WANTED. 
KOBT. F. SHANNON, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
IFPQCVC KOR SALE.—Young Bulls 
WtlT^OE I O and Heifers. Dams by 
Stoke Pogls 6th; Ida’s Rioter of St. L.; Landseer's 
Harry, etc., sire son of Prospect Rioter. 
JAS. T. ARMSTRONG. 1044 Penn Ave., Pittsburg, Pa 
A. J. C, G. Jersey Cattle and Chester 
WHITE HOGS.—Four choice Heifers and Bulls, 4 to 
lfi months old. Chester White Pigs: Happy Medium, 
King of Chester Whites, heads the herd. Come and 
see or write. C. E. MORRISON. Londonderry Pa. 
0TAI I I f| A|— A fine black draftStallion, registered 
0 I /ALLIUI1 (Napier No. (!07(i, foaled Sept. 7,1801), 
to sell or trade for registered cattle. Short-horn or 
Jersey. J. I. MOUTRAY. Olnoy, Ill. 
Fan C ■■ p—A litter of fine St. Bernard pup- 
rUn wHLl pies, from the best registered 
stock. C. M. ACKLKN. Alberton. Md. 
Feed Is HIGH I Price of Pigs LOW. Quality the 
Best. BUY early before the chance is GONE. Order 
from 
Willswood Herd 
Recorded Berkshire Swine. 
WILLS A. SEWARD. Budd's Lake, N. J. 
C HESTER VVH ITES Have you been disappointed 
swindled In buying pigs '! If so, try the old true 
type Chester Whites, bred by G. R. Foulk e. West 
Chester. Pa. Have broad, dished face, lop ear, straight 
hair and back.good body, hone and ham; aregrowthy, 
not coarse. Only breeder guar, satis, or frt. both ways 
CHESHIRES!""-S D F - aRM 
In the Banner Herd of the world. Awarded 
more than three time* as many First Premi¬ 
ums (at the World's Fair, Chicago) as all the 
reet of the Cheshire exhibitors put together; 
17 First Premiums and Special Mention. 
Lion’s share of First Premiums and Cold 
Medal at N. Y. State Fair, 1894. Why not 
buy the best! Prices low. Correspondence 
solicited. 
B. J. HURLBUT, Clymer, N. Y. 
Reg. Poland-Chinas 
and BERKSHIRKS. Choice 
largo strains.8-week pigs not 
akin. Poland-China Boars 
all ages. Hard time prices 
HAMILTON k DO., L’ochrnuvllle, I'a. 
We have begun booking 
orders for Fall Pigs. Send 
yours Correspondence solic¬ 
ited 
F. H. GATES & SONS, 
Chittenango, N. Y. 
show at ntw iynsv dime rAiit 
several of our DUROC-JERSEY PRIZE YVIN- 
NERS, and their PIGS will be for sale; they have 
taken hirst Prize at the World’s Fair. Also, 
* >rlz . e ’ Sweepstakes, and The Grand 
W ICO Herd Prize, open to All lireedHof Swine, 
at the great Western State Ealrs. the largest hog 
shows in the world. E. L. CLARKSON, Tivo 11, N. Y. 
Iflf) Choice !’• Ducks. Must go quick to make room 
IUU Brookside Poultry Farm, Columbus, N. J. 
IIIMIU1 O BUHt UUI Itn trial. 
Iry it before you puy for It* 
Nothing on earth will 
MAKE HENS LAY 
Like Creen Cut Bone. III. catlg. free if you namo 
this paper. r.W. MANN CO.. MILFORD, MASS. 
P atent Slow-Feed Manger; SI (10 each; 9 000 
sold. 50 Warren St., New York; 140 N. Broad St. 
Philadelphia, and 53 Elm St., Boston, Mass. 
BEFORE 
BUYING 
ANEW 
HARNESS 
Send 2-cent stamp for 80-page Illus¬ 
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made Oak Leather Harness, sold 
direct to consumers at wholesale 
prices. Why not buy from first 
hands and save the middleman’s 
profit. You can buy by mail as 
well as though here in person. 
Making to order a specialty. 
KINO k CO., No. lOCliureh St., Owego, N.Y. 
RECORD TIGHT-SEAL PACKAGE 
FOU 
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rinade in nine sizes, from one 
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FEEDING ANIMALS 
This Is a practical work of 660 pages, by Professor 
E. W. STEWART, upon the science of feeding In all 
its details, giving practical rations for all farm ani¬ 
mals. Its accuracy is proved by Its adoption as a 
text book In nearly all Agricultural Colleges and Ex¬ 
periment Stations in America. It will pay anybody 
having a horse or a cow, or who feeds a few pigs or 
sheep to buy and study it carefully. Price, $2.00. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
Corner Chambers and Pearl Streets, New York. 
ELLIOT’S PARCHMENT BUTTER PAPER. H A 7 « A CD C C 
To dairymen or others who will use it, we will send half a ream, 8 x 11 , free, if they M fill Bm 
will forward 30 cents to pay postage. Why not try the Best Butter Wrapper? 
A, G. ELLIOT &, CO., Paper Manufacturers, Philadelphia, Pa. 
